Industrial Revolution Article Analysis
REVEALED: INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION WAS POWERED BY CHILD SLAVES
Huge factory expansion would not have been possible without exploitation of the young

Considering the title the intellingent reader can understand that the current article will be about a reveal, so the topic of the article will be something that has always been unknown, or not certainly known, until now. 
Surely the title suggests the main theme: exploitation of children during industrial revolution, that forced them becoming slaves. Apparently the process was powered and intensified by them, indeed the article argues that “the huge factory expansion would not have been possible without exploitation of the young”.
This is not a simple hypothesis, some data proved that child labour was the crucial ingredient which allowed Britain's Industrial Revolution to succeed, especially Oxford's Professor Humphries found that child labour was much more common and economically important than previously realised.
Statistics confirmed that by the early 19th century, England had more than a million child workers (including around 350,000 7-to 10-yearolds) accounting for 15 per cent of the total labour force. 
But why did they accept this condition? Factory owners were looking for cheap, malleable and fast-learning work forces and found them in children of the urban workhouses: children prefered workfactories instead of workhouses.
Moreover, in the 1790s, there were tens of thousands unpaid child workers. But extracted from 600 autobiographies, is also revealing how the Industrial Revolution helped change life and culture in other ways too, for examle industrialisation removed rigid social control over young people's lives and allowed them therefore to get married much younger.
But anyway, even if family had the chance to grow up faster, women had been integrated into the work force, while their husbands and sons went out to work in mines, railways, docks and factories. So the conditions were really breakable.
Sofor long, the importance of nation's economic and imperial power dominated the work.
In conclusion, the main consequence of the Industrial Revolution is  especially the comprehension of labour forced’s hardness and the difficult relationship between the family and the economy. 

It’s possible to connect Oliver Twist’s novel (by Charles Dickens) with the reality of Industrial Revolution. 
Oliver was a poor and orphan boy too forced to stay in a workhouse were the conditions were terrible: indeed their residents were subject to hard regulations: small ration of food and clothes, families were separated, and labour was hard and required. 
So this is a suggestion of why children started to work in factories. Surely even in factories the work and igenic conditions were difficult, but less then in workhouses.Moreoer in factories they sometimes had the chances of earn some money.

David Keys, Independent
Monday 2 August 2010